It has always been an underground movement, otherwise we would be a massacre. It started in the coffee houses, in the collages and parks in the 50s. They were called Beatnicks. They were Hip To The Jive. When we came along, we took what was being talked about and put it to use. We started rallying and uniting. We were motivated to take action, and action we took. We took it to the streets. We sat and would not stand for the machine to dominate us and force us to conform to their ways of thinking/doing. It was in the music we wrote, it was The Message in our song. We listened to our Gurus, our leaders, we identified with them in their rebellion. We werea chipsters off the hipsters, we were Hippies It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and we were apart of the magic of that time. We came to subdue the negativity of the injustice that faced all ppl, with love in the most perfect way. We were Armed Love. They did not start a War on Drugs, They started a War on Hippies. They feared us. They knew if ppl started listening to us they would lose control of the masses and their material world would crumble around them. We set some precedence and changed some perspectives and swayed a majority of opinions in our direction. We are still the same ppl we were back then. We just choose our battle with more discretion, the ones that lived to tell about it. Bright Blessings sh
A wonderful thing I've discovered along the way is the presence of hippies of many ages. A month or so ago I got very psychedelic with a nice little group of several hundred people ranging in age from early 20s to late 60s - many of us hippies, some not. It was as sweet as anything I've ever been to from the 1960s on. I don't think any one person or group of people or community can make a definitive definition of hippie or tell the definitive hippie story or experience. There are many commonalities, but no THE experience or definition.
Age is not important it is more of a collective state of mind. Myself i am more at home with nature than the drones that surround me,my doors are never closed all may enter my home.My gardern is a sanctuary, whatever lays its roots will always have an home.it as led to some amazing insights which otherwise would have been closed to me.i live in a land of wonder.
I just love the fact that I'm very caring and loving. Everything about being hippie is wonderful. It's just tapping into your human side. that's all being hippie really is.
What I love about being a hippie is that it allows you to realise not everything is about the 9 to 5 work schedule and money, but rather about enjoyment and culture. There are many great things that come free, and many experiences that you just cannot buy. Being a hippie, I find, lets you experience that freedom.
